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Just how much are Americans willing to tolerate?
It's not enough that President Lucifer's NSA (National Security Agency)
intercepts and spies on our every email, phonecall, bank and credit card
transaction, and other communications, the NSA actually intercepts, i.e.,
hijacks, computers *before* they reach the consumers.
Why?
So as to build a "back door" in the computers which enables the NSA to spy
on us.
Raphael Satter reports for the
AP<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NSA_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-12-29-13-01-13>
that
a German magazine,* Der Spiegel*, reported on Dec. 29, 2013, that* an elite
division of the NSA (1) intercepts computer deliveries; (2) exploits
hardware vulnerabilities; and (3) even hijacks Microsoft's internal
reporting system to spy on their targets. *The NSA division is known
as *Tailored
Access Operations (TAO)*, which is a team of super-hackers specializing in
stealing data from the toughest of targets.
Citing internal NSA documents, *Der Spiegel* said TAO's mission is "Getting
the ungettable," and quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying that
TAO had gathered "some of the most significant intelligence our country has
ever seen." TAO employs a catalog of James Bondish high-tech gadgets for
particularly hard-to-crack cases, including:
- Computer monitor cables specially modified to record what is being
typed across the screen;
- USB sticks secretly fitted with radio transmitters to broadcast stolen
data over the airwaves;
- Fake base stations intended to intercept mobile phone signals on the
go.
*1. NSA intercepts computer deliveries to build "back doors"*
When a target orders a new computer or other electronic accessories, TAO
coordinates with the FBI and the CIA to intercept the hardware in transit,
and take it to a secret workshop where it could be discretely fitted with
espionage software before being sent on its way. An NSA document cited by *Der
Spiegel* boasts that intercepting computer equipment in such a way is among
the NSA's "most productive operations," and has helped harvest intelligence
from around the world.
*2. NSA exploits hardware vulnerabilities*
Purpose: to deliver malicious software to specific computers. The makers of
the hardware and software exploited by the NSA include some of the world's
leading information technology companies, including:
- China's Huawei Technologies Ltd.; and
- U.S. companies: Cisco Systems, Inc. of San Jose, California; Western
Digital Corp. of Irvine, California; Dell Inc. of Round Rock, Texas.
*3. NSA spies on Microsoft Corp.'s crash reports*
Microsoft's crash reports are familiar to many users of the Windows
operating system as the dialogue box that pops up when a game freezes or a
Word document dies. The crash reporting system is intended to help
Microsoft engineers improve their products and fix bugs, but unbeknown to
Microsoft, the NSA also sifts through the reports to help spies break into
machines running Windows.
For its part, Microsoft says the information sent by customers about
technical issues in these crash reports is limited. A Microsoft rep said in
an email to *Der Spiegel*: "Microsoft does not provide any government with
direct or unfettered access to our customer's data. We would have
significant concerns if the allegations about government actions are true."
Microsoft is one of several U.S. firms that have demanded more transparency
from the NSA - and worked to bolster their security - in the wake of the
revelations of former intelligence worker Edward Snowden, whose disclosures
have ignited an international debate over privacy and surveillance.
*Der Spiegel* did not explicitly say where its cache of NSA documents had
come from, although the magazine has previously published a series of
stories based on documents leaked by Snowden, and one of Snowden's key
contacts - American documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras - was listed among
the article's six authors.
And now the latest news:
*The Washington
Post*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-seeks-to-build-quantum-computer-that-could-crack-most-types-of-encryption/2014/01/02/8fff297e-7195-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_print.html>reports,
Jan. 2, 2013, that *the
NSA is racing to build a quantum computer that's exponentially faster than
classical computers, which can break nearly every kind of encryption used
to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the
world.*
According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden,
the effort to build the quantum computer is part of a $79.7 million
research program titled “Penetrating Hard Targets.” Much of the work is
hosted under classified contracts at a laboratory <http://www.lps.umd.edu/> in
College Park, Md.
Read more
here<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-seeks-to-build-quantum-computer-that-could-crack-most-types-of-encryption/2014/01/02/8fff297e-7195-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_print.html>
.
See also:
- “Big Brother’s secret NSA Data Center in
Utah<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/big-brothers-secret-nsa-data-center-in-utah/>,”
June 8, 2013.
- “NSA whistleblowers: Govt is spying on every single
American<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/nsa-whistleblowers-govt-is-spying-on-every-single-american/>,”
Aug. 6, 2012.
- "Facebook =
Spybook<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/01/03/facebook-spybook/>,"
Jan. 3, 2013.
- “Made-in-China home appliances contain spy
chips<http://cofda.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/made-in-china-home-appliances-contain-spy-chips/>,”
Nov. 8, 2013.
*~Eowyn*
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